Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] a [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 2 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 3 | There is no reason why these should not be made in the home provided the design is kept to a simple one for a first attempt . |
| 4 | Airdrie had something of a fifth column working for them . |
| 5 | As PostScript is something of a second fiddle to Hewlett-Packard 's PCL in the PC world you might have thought that this was nothing to do with you . |
| 6 | Residential care has been viewed and therefore avoided as something of a last resort . |
| 7 | struggle between two conceptions of the press : the one of a Fourth Estate , with proprietorship a form of public service and journalists a species of public philosophers ; the other of the press as an industry , with proprietors as businessmen and journalism a trade or craft . |
| 8 | This means that for many of its black speakers as well as virtually all its white speakers , the London variety of Creole is something like a second language or dialect , learnt around the time of transition between childhood and adolescence . |
| 9 | ‘ Above all , the British industrial revolution was a regional phenomenon ’ ( Pollard , 1981 ) ; but often pioneering regions , four declined soon after they had made their vital contribution ( Cornwall , Shropshire , North Wales and the Derbyshire uplands ) , while two more ( Tyneside and Clydeside ) had to get something like a second wind to survive as centres of expanding metal industries and shipbuilding . |
| 10 | But now , after he has commanded Abraham to leave everything behind a second time , he waits until Abraham has passed the test . |
| 11 | I understand that Series III gearboxes came in two different gear ratio sets , the after one with a fourth gear ratio of 0.792:1 . |
| 12 | It is worth noting that the seal from Knossos was capped in gold at either end like the one from a Third Dynasty level at Ur . |
| 13 | something to a third party for decision , they are most likely not to have agreed about it , and however one analyses their disagreement , they are in dispute . |
| 14 | Don ? t expect to understand everything at a first reading . |